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Geoffrey Chaucer - the "father of English poetry" - lived in the XIV century, when his homeland was very far from the Renaissance, which in England had to wait for almost two more centuries. Until Spencer and Marlowe, there was nothing in English poetry not only equal, but simply commensurate with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Reflecting its age, this book, for a number of reasons, still does not fit into the framework of its time. It can be said that Chaucer, living in the Middle Ages, anticipated the realism of the English Renaissance, and wrote his Canterbury Tales for all ages.
Introductory article and notes by I. Kashkin, translated by I. Kashkin and O. Rumer.